[arm-allstar] remote base node functioning question
Kenneth Grimard
n1dot1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 09:20:17 EST 2015
as i said to you before sam I have gotten this to work with the acid code.
it will not work for full cat control using a usb serial adapter i had
tried that myself.
you need a real pc with a real serial port. I am using a pc with a
pentium 4 processor with a
real serial port usb to serial just does not work at all.
other wise it does work very well and you have to program the icon 706 a
certain for it to work also.
i have been successful with this. unless the code can be modified to use
the gpio on a raspi.
usb to serial just does not work at all not with out modifying the code.
cat control is done via the icom ci-v protocol from with in app_rpt.c
ken n1dot
On 6/17/2015 2:11 PM, Sam Nabkey wrote:
>
> Sam Scofield is running the xcat. I was just trying to run an icom
> 706 or a Kenwood tm700d.
>
> Whenever you call a node a remote base, weirdness happens to the usb
> adapter. It's just not workable in the bbb or even later revs of acid.
>
> This interests me... I will have to run some experiments soon.
>
> Which radios are you running and do you have any good scripts you
> could pass on and maybe how you operate it as a user? I'd appreciate
> any input.
>
> Sam NABJEY K8SN..
>
> On Jun 17, 2015 8:40 AM, "David McGough" <kb4fxc at inttek.net
> <mailto:kb4fxc at inttek.net>> wrote:
>
>
> Sam,
>
> I haven't personally used the Syntor X-cat adapter. I looked at their
> yahoo group and the documentation in the "files" section.
> Otherwise, I've
> used rigctl to manage many different radios, with great success.
> The first
> place to start is from the BBB shell prompt, with remote-base support
> disabled in app_rpt. Once you get familiar with the various rigctl
> commands, macros for access via AllStar are pretty easy--just directly
> call the rigctl command from AllStar.
>
> I'm guessing you're using the CI-V interface method for the Xcat?
> Are you
> using full VFO capability, or just changing the Syntor's modes (AKA:
> channels)?
>
> If simply changing modes, I'm guessing some command something like
> this
> will work:
>
> /usr/local/bin/rigctl -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -m 311 -s 19200 -c0x20 h 27
>
> -r /dev/ttyUSB0 #### serial interface to use...
> -s 19200 #### serial data rate (Xcat uses 19200, based on the
> manual)
> -c0x20 #### CI-V address (Xcat is fixed at 0x20, from the manual)
> h 27 #### "h 27" changes to memory channel channel 27
>
>
> "rigctl -l" will get a list of supported radio back-ends. I'd
> recommend
> trying various Icom back-ends, hopefully finding something that works
> 100%.
>
> rigctl -l #### Get list of available back-ends
>
> "rigctl -m 311 -u" will get a list of supported features for a given
> back-end, try this. Note that the "-m 311" uses the ic-706mk2g
> back-end.
>
> rigctl -m 311 -u #### Get supported features for back-end 311
>
>
> I'll try to help further, once I understand more about your setup.
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Nabkey wrote:
>
> > That's cool. Care to share some setup examples? I'd love to
> see them.
> >
> > K8SN
> > On Jun 17, 2015 6:51 AM, "David McGough" <kb4fxc at inttek.net
> <mailto:kb4fxc at inttek.net>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Sam,
> > >
> > > I'm guessing that you're trying to use the built-in
> remote-base code in
> > > app_rpt?? If so, the only thing I can suggest at this point
> is to use
> > > hamlib (the "rigctl" program), instead of the built-in code.
> > >
> > > I use hamlib for several radios hosted by BBB's, etc., and it
> works
> > > perfectly for me.
> > >
> > >
> > > 73, David KB4FXC
> > >
> > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Skolfield wrote:
> > >
> > > > Really too bad, I'm so close to success with what is
> obviously one of
> > > very
> > > > few attempts at a frequency-agile BBB node. Looking at the
> console with
> > > any
> > > > level of verbosity doesn't seem to reveal any useful
> information.
> > > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be able to fix this
> any time
> > > soon.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Sam Nabkey
> <sam.nabkey at gmail.com <mailto:sam.nabkey at gmail.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I wish I had time and more knowledge. ..
> > > > >
> > > > > It's fun to try and figure it all out. .
> > > > > On Jun 16, 2015 5:06 PM, "Sam Skolfield" <kj6qfs at gmail.com
> <mailto:kj6qfs at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hi Sam!
> > > > >> That's frustrating! Perhaps someone can help us fix this
> bug? There
> > > has
> > > > >> to be more people that want to use frequency agile remote
> bases than
> > > just
> > > > >> the two Sams....
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Sam Nabkey
> <sam.nabkey at gmail.com <mailto:sam.nabkey at gmail.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> This is one of the same issues I experienced with the
> bbb code. The
> > > cli
> > > > >>> will be blowing can't hang up errors at you while this
> is going on.
> > > My
> > > > >>> only recourse was to reboot.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I went to an acid version before the changes were made
> to the channel
> > > > >>> drivers that was "fixed" to work reliably on the bbb to
> get my
> > > remote to
> > > > >>> work.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Sam K8SN
> > > > >>> On Jun 16, 2015 8:04 AM, "Sam Skolfield"
> <kj6qfs at gmail.com <mailto:kj6qfs at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>> David, I'm using a *1 xxxx (xxxx being the node)
> > > > >>>>
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> > > > >> --
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> > > > >> Sam Skolfield
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